As the Hiroshima bombing anniversary passes again, Richard Fernadez asks a question: Try this quiz. Name the two greatest losses of civilian life in the Pacific war. Hint. In both cases the civilian casualties were greater than Hiroshima’s. In one case the event took place on American soil. Here’s the […]
Ever wondered why so much human activity is a bit … odd? Now we know.
A thoughtful reader writes: There is one issue that occasionally troubles me. It is quite obvious in politics and senior positions elsewhere, that leaders cannot have a grasp of everything. Thus they must trust to their judgement on whom to believe on particular issues. This is particularly important […]
You’re seriously ill. The doctor says something like this: You may now need to think about your best options. It looks to us as if you have the following two basic options: Option A: we use the most aggressive medical techniques we can find to try to cure you. But […]
Is hosted by Mr Eugenides. A double round-up this week. Linking to Thatcher Derangement Syndrome. A more than comprehensive analysis by Brian Barder of the al-Megrahi/Libya business. And a lumbering waddle into the droll world of fat queer activists: I’m a working stiff, a tired artist, and an aspiring public intellectual […]
Christian faith centres on giving up the claim to be yourself at everyone else’s expense… What a tendentious and generally problematic pronouncement. “Love your neighbour as yourself" Yes. But what does it mean to love yourself? As Ayn Rand famously put it, "To say ‘I love you,’ one must know […]
I bewail the creepy drift in our political culture from Reason to Emotion, from Objective to Subjective – over at Business and Politics.
H/t Samizdata who lead us to this vivid site featuring three Texas fun-lovin’ ladies. One a Polysomnography Technician (what else?), another at college, the third looking after her family. Yup. Beautiful smart strong women who have it all. The feminist’s dream come true? That said, men with a nervous or unfaithful disposition might […]
Have a quick look at this latest example of junk diplomacy, hard at work with our money: The exhibition “Climate Faces — Changing Earth, Changing Lives”, now on display in the Main Gallery of the Visitors Lobby of United Nations Headquarters, will be opened formally in a 6 p.m. ceremony […]
At long last we are starting to be honest about the national indebtedness issues we face: The true scale of Britain’s national indebtedness was laid bare by the Office for National Statistics yesterday: almost £4 trillion, or £4,000bn, about four times higher than previously acknowledged. It quantifies the burden that […]
